Allison Amend

Allison Amend is the author of A Nearly Perfect Copy, Stations West, Things That Pass for Love, and, just this week from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Books, Enchanted Islands, inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway. In Amend’s novel, the fictionalized Frances is an independent Minnesotan woman sent with her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, to the Galapágos Islands during World War II.